Is It Morally Impossible to Write Roughshod Over Limits?

Liberalism is committed to a limited politics or politics of limits, trying to establish limits on the power that individuals can exert over others. And this makes it I think inherently opposed to or inherently threatened by ruthlessness," he says. "Ruthless" attitude rejects all forms of constraint or inhibition or remorse, scruple, hesitation in the pursuit of some goal or another." So you find people who often for moral reasons are convinced of the validity of ruthlessness attacking liberalism and liberals' great spirit of compromise", writes Frum.